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Quigley Down Under

Name: Quigley Down Under
Genre: Western
Released: 1990-10-17
Duration: 119 min
Rating: 6.7

★ 6,7 /10 (433 Votes)

1990 EN 119 min

Overview

American Matt Quigley answers Australian land baron Elliott Marston's ad for a sharpshooter to kill the dingoes on his property. But when Quigley finds out that Marston's real target is the aborigines, Quigley hits the road. Now, even American expatriate Crazy Cora can't keep Quigley safe in his cat-and-mouse game with the homicidal Marston.

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Release date

17/10/1990

Votes

433

Popularity

3.9

The West was never this far west.

Genres

Western

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

119 min

Revenue

$21,413,845

Tom Selleck

Matthew Quigley

Laura San Giacomo

Crazy Cora

Alan Rickman

Elliott Marston

Chris Haywood

Major Ashley-Pitt

Ron Haddrick

Grimmelman

Tony Bonner

Dobkin

Jerome Ehlers

Coogan

Conor McDermottroe

Hobb

Roger Ward

Brophy

Ben Mendelsohn

O'Flynn

Steve Dodd

Kunkurra

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Karen Davitt

Slattern

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Kylie Foster

Slattern

William Zappa

Reilly

Jonathan Sweet

Sergeant Thomas

Michael Carman

Deserter

Jon Ewing

Tout

Tim Hughes

Miller

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David Slingsby

Mullion

Danny Adcock

Mitchell

Maeliosa Stafford

Cavanagh

Ollie Hall

Carver

Evelyn Krape

Mrs. Grimmelman

Mark Pennell

Bugler

Don Bridges

Ticket Seller

Gnarnayarrahe Waitairie

Kajubi

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Bruce Burrngu Burrngu

Aborigine

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Fred Welsh

Startled Man

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Ian Lind

Startled Man

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James Wright

Bushman

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Bruce Knappett

Bushman

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Joanie Thomas

Elderly Woman

Vic Gordon

Elderly Man

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David Le Page

French Canadian

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Cory Tjapaltjarri

Little Bit

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Allan Bradford

Bullocky

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Graham Young

Bullocky

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Eamonn Kelly

Klaus Grimmelman

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Greg Stuart

Deserter

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Billy Stockman

Tribal Elder

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Brian Ellison

Oliver

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Mark Minchinton

Paddy

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Guy Norris

Cliff

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Gerald Egan

Whitey

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Spike Cherrie

Hayden

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Jim Willoughby

Scotty

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Danny Baldwin

Smythe

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Matthew Quigley: Sharps Shooter. Quigley Down Under is directed by Simon Wincer and written by John Hill. It stars Tom Selleck, Laura San Giacomo and Alan Rickman. Music is by Basil Poledouris and cinematography by David Eggby. Plot sees Selleck as Matthew Quigley, a Wyoming cowboy and sharp shooting rifleman who answers an advertisement to go to Western Australia as a hired sharp shooter. If proving his worth, he's to work for Elliot Marston (Rickman), but when Marston outlines his sick reasons for hiring Quigley, the pair quickly become on a collision course that can only see one of them …

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_**“Maybe the dingo ate your baby”**_ In the late 1870s, a famous sharpshooter from Wyoming (Tom Selleck) travels to Australia for a gig with a land baron in the Outback (Alan Rickman), but things turn sour when he learns what the job really entails. Laura San Giacomo is also on hand as Crazy Cora. “Quigley Down Under” (1990) is a Western taking place in the desert wilderness of Australia. The title suggests that Quigley was meant to be a Western character in the manner of Indiana Jones with sequels of him visiting other continents, such as “Quigley in Africa,” “Quigley in South Americ…

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